Too Many Penguins Is the Best Kind of Problem

If you wish your internet procrastination breaks involved fewer weird Facebook relatives and more animal hordes, you’re in luck. The citizen-science enablers at the Zooniverse have just launched a new project called Penguin Watch. You can count penguin babies, squint at rocks, and be back to work before your coffee cools. And help scientists, if you’re into that.

The Zooniverse hosts over two dozen crowdsourced science projects. You can click and scroll through stars, craters, the ocean flo